the interesting thing is that it's not just an issue of national defense. if you look into the history, and, by the way, it goes back to the renaissance, and protections first emerged under rational discussion in the italian renaissance between a myth out there that economics began with adam smith. it's really not true, but what you discover, if you look back 500f the history, you discover every economically developed nation got that way practicing some protectionism, not just the united states, but also the other developed colonial countries like canada, australia, even south africa, strangely enoughing and then you turn back europe, first industrialized country, the u.k. turned aggressively to free trade in the mid-19th century, but prior to that, they were the most protectionist country in europe. there's a phrase that you may have heard if you cross the paths with economic history. there's a myth out there promoted by free traders that mother tiles was about kings who wanted to horde barrels of gold in the palace. i have to observe having gold is the on